Its only 120 days but I just ordered a geek solo and some ejuice thinking I could get it through the mail. No dice.

So are DIY kits still legal to order? Who do you guys recommend? Moneys no object, I want quality ingredients now that I get to assemble it all myself.

https://diyordievaping.com/

I like liquid barn for flavors and nic

Thanks for the link...

I bought a bunch of shit on line last week and had it delivered. 500ML of 3% nic 50/50 premixed and a few flavor liquids to mix my own. I should have been doing it a long time ago. I bought everything for $40. I was paying $20 for a 60ml bottle of Cutwood. Vaping on some fine Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla mix right now and thinking about how #mygovernorisanidiot.

Guess I am lucky I am not in the big tobacco’s occupied territory.  I can still order pretty much anything I want, when I can find it in stock.  Abet it feels like stock is hard to find sometimes.  I know local shops are starting to downsize to protect themselves, going back to their tobacco or paraphilia roots - hoping that lack of stock online is just because other’s building vape fortsnot because the shops are covering their ass as well.

Right now I don’t have an honorable juice stash.  I have a budding collection of mods - and ordered some more equipment for the vapocalypse.  While far be it for me to suggest anything illegal - I seriously doubt the shops in China/Taiwan really care about state laws-but who knows, maybe their programmers do.  That said, I doubt Chinese hardware will kill me (95% of the stuff is from China anyway), but juice - probably would prefer to stay domestic on that.

Funny business.  I was in a different vape shop the other day and saw some handcrafted mec mods.  American machinists make art, and 4 month later there is a Chinese clone at 1/10 the price.  I probably should not have encouraged the practice - but for fun I ordered a $20 clone of a Kennedy - and I ordered a real one domestically.  I wonder if I will be able to feel the difference in my soul when I use them..
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Just an update - still waiting on the package from China.  Have been enjoying the real Kennedy for about 3 weeks or so now.

Add Montana to the list of Ban states,it went in effect yesterday for 120 days Looks like I might start mixing my own as well

Shit, I just recently got rid of all my DIY stuff. I would've shipped my flavoring out to a member if I would've caught this.

I used bull city vapes for most of my DIY flavoring. Got my nic from nudenicotine as well but their shipping department takes forever.

I just received my 2nd shipment from DIYELS. Super fast shipping on a 1000ml bottle of 50/50 3% and 120ml bottle of flavoring. Im set for a while now with  almost two liters of juice and enough flavorings to keep myself in juice for the next 6 months.

For nicotine - I get the 36mg stabilized stuff and mix it way down. 36mg just because it is as concentrated as I want to play with but is a better deal than higher dilutions. Stale nicotine tastes like ass... buy appropriate sizes that won't be open too long and store in the freezer.
https://nudenicotine.com/collections/nude-armor-v3/products/nude-armor-v3-36mg?variant=29210365919345

For everything else
https://www.bullcityflavors.com/

Just ordered from liquid barn. They had a few premixed flavors called "tastemaker collection" I had to try. New to this so got 500ml of 3mg and 6mg nic to see what works for me. I'll give diye-liquids a try next time.

Got a geekvape aegis solo and alpha tank from vapor authority.

If your coming experience is anything like mine, you'll wonder why you weren't mixing your own liquids all along.
I was paying $18 to $20 for a 60ml bottle of Cuttwood at the local retailer. Now my cost is less than $3 per 60ml.
I found Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla to be a great flavor that is quickly becoming my new favorite mixed at 10% with a 50/50 PGVC 3% nic base.

@woodsrider

Is that 10% flavor to Nic juice ratio?

You use to be a smoker? Did you start at 3% nic or higher and work your way down to 3%?

@ Boom_Stick
I used to smoke, yes. But less than a half a pack a day when I switched to vaping. I hate everything about smoking but the nicotine. Especially the smell of my clothes and hands having a smoke.
When I switched, I first went with Blue E-cigs. When I switched to a tank I started with 6% nic, and went down to 3% after the first 30ml bottle because I hit this fucker a lot, and at 6% I was getting too much nicotine.

I Looked at the suggested mix ratios for the flavor samples I bought and just followed the suggested ratios. Most are around 10 to 15% flavor to base depending on the VG/PG blend. I prefer a 50/50 ratio base for a more mild throat hit, and my cloud isn't offensively dense for others around me. A lot of the bottled shit out there was too sweet for me, and my wife couldn't stand the smell of the clouds. Since I started buying and mixing my own, she hasn't said a word.

My Base is a 50/50 mix of PG/VG, with 3% nicotine already blended in. To an empty 60ml bottle I pour in 6ml of flavoring, and top it off with base. Shake it up real good and let it "steep" for a day or two. Letting it sit will give the flavor time to blend into the base.

Finally got my stuff today! The alpha tank (geekvape) turned out to be a real POS. After 3-4 hits it'd start gurgling then dump juice out the airflows everytime. Took it apart/inspected/rebuilt half a dozen times, tried both coils.....  Determined to get to vape today I ran down to the vape shop and grabbed a freemax mesh pro. 100x better, big flavor and clouds.
Started out with the 3%. Still not sure if thats too much considering how many times Ive hit this thing today. Think Im going to order a bottle of 0%

Vaping's the bees-knees! Pack of ciggs I bought few days ago will collect dust and get stale now.

Check out the aspire Cleito tank. No leaks, no over saturation. Im running a 0.4 ohm coil at 45w (rated at 40 to 60W) and vet about 180 to 220ml of juice out of a coil before it starts to taste like it needs changing. Flavors with a higher sugar content will obviously need changing out more frequently.

FWIW, eventually I might try to give tanks a chance again.  But of the tanks I have, one leaks badly and the other 2 are not all that impressive with flavor.  RDA for the win, and squonk if you really need a tank.

I really like the flavor of the Profile unity RDA, but it is somewhat limited in the watts it can handle.  Too many and dry hits from hell.

That said, I am somewhat enjoying the diy aspects of the hobby.  Made my first fused Clapton coil yesterday.  I have a couple Chinese RDA’s in route, so will make one or 2 more pair in the next couple of days for them.  The one I am running is a pair of 6 wrap 26ga Kanthal wrapped in 26ga, for about .5ohm per coil.  That comes out to roughly 64 watts.  Will probably try 5 wraps on the next one.  A little hotter and a little less ramp up time.

I'll check it out. Im thinking of getting another tank for dedicated flavors. Right now Im still experimenting to find out what I like.

For those of you who order from Liquid Barn, have you tried the taste makers collections? I got three and two of them are so-so but this one is awesome! Gonna try their "The Man" next.
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